About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

February 6......

February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 (329 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and Juba at Thapsus.

● 337 - Julius I is elected pope.

● 679 Death of Amandus, the founder of Belgian monasticism. During his 95 years, he established eight abbeys, five in the Southern Netherlands.

● 1508 - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor

● 1577 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots

● 1626 - Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle

● 1651 - Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris

● 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

● 1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA

● 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

● 1817 - The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.

● 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

● 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.

● 1820 - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))

● 1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland

● 1832 - U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.

● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.'

● 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

● 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

● 1924 - Station KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel) went on the air. One of the earliest radio stations licensed, it broadcast the services of Angelus Temple, the flagship congregation of the International Foursquare Gospel Church, founded by Aimee Semple Mc Pherson in 1923.

● 1931 - Pioneer American linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.'

● 1947 - Three shots fired at Minneapolis mayor Hubert Humphrey as he returned home after a political meeting. All three bullets missed their mark, and no trace was ever found of the would-be assassin.

● 1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown

● 1951 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL

● 1951 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

● 1952 - First session of U.N. Population Commission.

● 1952 - King George VI dies in his sleep; His Majesty, King George VI, dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House, aged 56. Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II

● 1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Christianity, disruptive in nature, has nonetheless integrating powers for the individual in the culture, though both he and it may expect revolution.'

● 1953 - US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted

● 1956 - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing

● 1956 - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers

● 1956 - Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots due to her presence. It is not clear why the University, in its vast academic wisdom, did not elect to suspend the rioters.

● 1956 - St. Patrick Center opened in Kankakee, IL. It was the first circular school building in the United States.

● 1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C..

● 1958 - United players killed in air disaster; Seven Manchester United footballers are among 21 dead after an air crash in Munich.

● 1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow

● 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

● 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

● 1961 - The jail-in movement begins when students in Rock Hill, South Carolina are arrested and demand jail time rather than fines.

● 2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the Liberals after 13 years in power. Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Amand, Apostle of the Franks● St. Antholian● St. Anthony Dainan● St. Bonaventure of Miako● St. Cosmas● St. Dorothy, patron saint of florists● St. Francis Nagasaki● St. Francis of St. Michael● St. James Kisai● St. John Soan de Goto● St. Martin de Aguirre● St. Martin Loynaz of the Ascension● St. Matthias of Meako● St. Mel● St. Michael Kozaki● St. Mun● St. Paul Miki & his companions, martyrs● St. Peter Shukeshiko● St. Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan● St. Relindis● Sts. Saturninus, Theophilus, & Revocata● St. Tanco● St. Theophilus the Lawyer● St. Thomas Danki● St. Thomas Kozaki● St. Vedastus● Bl. Diego De Avezedo

● Traditional Catholic:● St. Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 24 (Civil Date: February 6)● St. Xenia of Rome and her two female slaves.● St. Macedonius, hermit of Syria.● Martyrs Babylas of Sicily and his two disciples, Timothy and Agapius.● Translation of the Relics of St. Anastasius the Persian.● Martyrs Paul, Pausirius, and Theodotian, of Egypt.● St. Philo, Bishop of Kalpa in Cyprus.● St. Philippicus the presbyter.● Martyr Barsimaeus of Syria and his two brothers.● St. Zosimas, Bishop of Babylon in Egypt.● St. Dionysius of Olympus and Platina.● Martyr John of Kazan.● St. Gerasimus, Bishop of Perm.● St. Xenia of Petersburg, fool-for-Christ● St. Felician, Bishop of Foligno in Italy.

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